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Arrival and inspection of the L3 lens of the LSST Camera

Jeff Tice, background, holds the particle counter while Travis Lange inspects the surface of the r-band optical filter for dust particles. 

Mechanical engineer Travis Lange carefully watches the installation of the 14th  raft tower modules.

Dwarf Galaxy 3

This photo shows the 3,200-megapixel focal plane of Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera, under construction at SLAC.

Linac towards SLAC campus. 

Kayla Ninh at LCLS’s ChemRIX Hutch 2.2 in Near Experimental Hall. 

Hannah Pollek and Travis Lange at the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) raft installation.

The largest digital camera ever built for ground-based astronomy, the 3.2-gigapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time Camera is the size of a small car and weighs more than 3 tons.

A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility, where scientists use electron beams to advance revolutionary technologies that could make future particle accelerators much smaller and a lot more capable.